Senate OKs wider kids' health program

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

senate oks wider kids' health program

the senate has passed legislation to add 3 million lower-income children to a popular health insurance program in bipartisan defiance of president bush's threatened veto. the health program is designed to subsidize the cost of insurance for children whose families earn too much to participate in medicaid, but not enough to afford private health insurance.

ap/yahoo news, aug 03, 2007

[HM2VikingRN, RN]

When a child is enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip), the positive results can be dramatic. For example, after asthmatic children are enrolled in Schip, the frequency of their attacks declines on average by 60 percent, and their likelihood of being hospitalized for the condition declines more than 70 percent.

Regular care, in other words, makes a big difference. That's why Congressional Democrats, with support from many Republicans, are trying to expand Schip, which already provides essential medical care to millions of children, to cover millions of additional children who would otherwise lack health insurance.

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But denying basic health care to children whose parents lack the means to pay for it, simply because you're afraid that success in insuring children might put big government in a good light, is just morally wrong.

And the public understands that. According to a recent Georgetown University poll, 9 in 10 Americans -- including 83 percent of self-identified Republicans -- support an expansion of the children's health insurance program.

There is, it seems, more basic decency in the hearts of Americans than is dreamt of in Mr. Bush's philosophy.

http://alternet.org/healthwellness/58501/

[UKRNinUSA, RN]

"But denying basic health care to children whose parents lack the means to pay for it, simply because you're afraid that success in insuring children might put big government in a good light, is just morally wrong.

And the public understands that. According to a recent Georgetown University poll, 9 in 10 Americans -- including 83 percent of self-identified Republicans -- support an expansion of the children's health insurance program.

There is, it seems, more basic decency in the hearts of Americans than is dreamt of in Mr. Bush's philosophy."

As Kanye West said after Katrina "George Bush hates black people", so can it also be said that George Bush hates children? I seem to remember something about no child left behind............................